Shia Muslims and world leaders condemn Saudi executions
By Robert Hackwill



PARIS: -- Shia Muslims around the world are furious with Saudi Arabia over the execution of one of their leading clerics, and acts of violence against Sunnis are the result in several places.

In Kashmir Indian police had to break up a demonstration, and in Iraq a Shia mosque in Hilla was ransacked by an angry crowd.

World leaders are calling for calm, and in Europe the fear is this could further set back attempts to find peace in Syria.

“We want to see stability in the Middle East. We want to see good relations between the different countries of the Middle East, not least because that will be absolutely essential for solving the crisis that we have in Syria which is the source of so many of these problems,” said Britain’s David Cameron.

Britain belatedly condemned the Saudi executions, not before various other leaders had warned Riyad that its actions were unwise and should not be tolerated, especially as Saudi Arabia currently heads the UN’s Human Rights committee. Germany says Saudi Arabia must be held to account.

“The latest developments in Saudi Arabia are alarming. The German government strictly opposes the death penalty. We are watching those developments with regard to the export of arms,” said a spokesman for the economy ministry, Adrian Toschev.

The Russians have also warned Saudi Arabia and Iran to scale back their dispute, have called for calm in the region, and have offered their services as mediators.

Moscow has close ties with Iran, but less cordial relations with the Saudis, whose oil production policies, designed to kill off America’s shale gas boom, have also hurt the Russian economy.


-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-01-05

And this is why religion should be banned: It gives people that otherwise would have no social imteractions or links a common platform to stand together and act violently (at times) to protect their 'beliefs'. Take away religion and the world would be a better place...a perfect place...no, because people are people and will still fight. It will just be harder to rally support from across the globe if you had to give true reasons dor going to war i.e. watet, land, food or money etc etv

Let them all wipe themselves off the face of this earth with a holy war against each other.

Maybe they will forget about the West for a while.

Let them all wipe themselves off the face of this earth with a holy war against each other.

Maybe they will forget about the West for a while.

Reagan did that with the Iran-Iraq War and all people did was complain, complain, complain.

Let them all wipe themselves off the face of this earth with a holy war against each other.

Maybe they will forget about the West for a while.

Yeah, right. As if the Middle East countries all fight and the western countries can just watch and remain untouched by it all.